Today's share comes after I was commissioned to paint something for a friend who's grand child is due in July. The painting commissioned required I mix flesh tones, since the painting was a large 20x24, I mixed a large pile of paint. The painting did not need as much as I had mixed which left me with quite a bit left over. So being the frugal artist (you know the always starving artist) I looked for a painting subject from my "one day I want to paint this" list and did a couple of figure paintings. The first one was this one of my Granddaughter. I have not shared it with you as I did not want to spoil the surprise for her mother. You see this was her Mother's Day Gift from me. Schedules being challenging it took several weeks for us to finally get family time with my son and his family to give her this painting. I am happy with the results. Especially since I consider my best paintings are Still Life paintings.
I do have a lot to learn about painting portraits, like mixing the right flesh and hair colors. With the success of this piece I have painted several more figure pieces. I used more of the left over flesh paint from my commission piece mentioned above. The post before this one you are reading was the second figure piece I did. Did you see my "Last Dance" inspired by M. Fisher's painting. It was done after this one.
I love that I have been able to use my mixed paint and to do art that I have always wanted to do. However, the best part is I am growing.
 |
| 8x8 Professional Grade Acrylics |
 |
| Photo taken 2015 |
No comments:
Post a Comment